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Operational Excellence: Straight Talk from BMS’ Wellemeyer

PharmaManufacturing.com

Keywords: lean manufacturing, 5S, kaizen, pharmaceutical processing, pharmaceutical engineering and pharmaceutical manufacturing

How does a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant marked for closing transform itself into a corporate model (and home to Pharmaceutical Manufacturing’s 2005 Team of the Year)? Lean, 5-S and Factory Physics were all important, but people made the real difference. Listen in as John Wellemeyer, director of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Indiana Technical Operations, shares best practices.